Man shot dead in Auburn Gresham

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A man was shot to death Monday morning in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood, according to Chicago Police.

Antoine Alexander, 24, was sitting in a vehicle in the 8400 block of South Hermitage at 11:27 a.m. when a single shooter walked up and fired several rounds, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Alexander, who lived in the same block, was shot in the buttocks and back, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 12:10 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

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